Sep. 15, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Sunday night — a major stamp of approval from the state’s party leader that could push other establishment figures to get on board as the democratic socialist vies against a crowded general election field. However, as of Monday…
Sep. 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Joann Ariola has defended her decision to support a vote overriding Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of legislation decriminalizing illegal street vending amid fierce criticism from City Hall, describing her vote as a “protest” against what she described as previous mayoral inaction on the issue. Ariola had…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani will apologize for a 2020 social media post in which he called the NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” his campaign confirmed to amNewYork. Mamdani’s apparent shift on his past comments — he first revealed this in a…
Sep. 11, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign continued to insist Thursday that Hizzoner would stay in the mayoral general election, even while saying that it would conduct its own “independent poll” to make a decision on whether or not he will drop out. Adams’ campaign spokesperson, Todd Shapiro, said in a…
Sep. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Yet another new public poll shows Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani dominating the current four-way race for City Hall and defeating leading rival Andrew Cuomo in a one-on-one matchup — the second in two days to reveal as much. The Emerson College/PIX11/The Hill survey of 600 active city…
Sep. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams declared last Friday that he is staying in the New York City mayor’s race because he is the only candidate who can defeat Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. “I am running, and I’m going to beat Mamdani, and I’m going to continue the success…
Sep. 9, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would still lead in the November general election, albeit by a far slimmer margin, if the field shrank to a one-on-one bout between himself and rival former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a new Siena College and New York Times poll released Tuesday…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller After days of denial, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to admit Friday that he is entertaining offers for other job opportunities, though he maintained that he continues to campaign robustly for re-election. The admission came as questions continued to swirl around whether Adams would abandon his reelection bid for…
Sep. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos celebrated the return of nearly one million public school students and staff on Thursday morning by taking part in a ribbon-cutting at the new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Early College Prep High School in Jamaica, the first-of-its-kind for…
Sep. 4, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday he does not want Republican President Donald Trump to get involved with “my race” for mayor, but would not condemn the possibility of the commander-in-chief offering Mayor Eric Adams a job to drop out of the contest — a move that would likely…